01-12-2016 - SpecialCITY OF WEST COVINA
CITY COUNCIL
PLANNING COMMISSION
TUESDAY JANUARY 12, 2016, 6:00 PM
SPECIAL MEETING
CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
1444 W. GARVEY AVENUE SOUTH
WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA 91790
CITY COUNCIL
Mayor James Toma
Mayor Pro Tern Corey Warshaw
Councilman Lloyd Johnson
Councilman Mike Spence
Councilman Tony Wu
PLANNING COMMISSION
Vice Chairman Dario Castellanos
Commissioner Sheena Heng
Commissioner Donald Holtz
Commissioner Jose Jimenez
Commissioner Herb Redholtz
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NOTICE
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Development Commission, West Covina Public Financing Authority and the West Covina Community Services
Foundation are agencies on which the City Council serves as members. Agendas may contain items for these
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Tuesday January 12, 2016
PUBLIC COMMENTS
ADDRESSING THE CITY COUNCIL
(Per WCMC 2-48, Ordinance No. 2150)
If you wish to address the City Council during this Special Meeting, you may only address the City Council
concerning the item(s) that are described on the agenda and in the notice for the Special Meeting per Government
Code Section 5495433(a). Please complete a speaker card that is provided at the entrance and Submit to the City
Clerk I
Please identify on thespeaker cardthe agenda itentyou wish to address to the City Council. All comments are
limited to five (5) minutes per speaker.
Oral Communications may be limited to thirty (30) minutes, unless speakers addressing agenda items have
not concluded.
Any testimony or comments regarding a matter set for a Public Hearing will be heard during the hearing.
RULESOFDECORUM
Excerpts from the West Covina Municipal Code and Penal Code pertaining to the Rules of Decorum will be
found at the end of the agenda.
Agenda material is available at wwiv. ivestcovina.org
Tuesday January 12, 2016
AGENDA
CITY OF WEST COVINA
CITY COUNCIL
TUESDAY JANUARY 12, 2016, 6:00 PM
SPECIAL MEETING
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
ROLL CALL
JOINT MEETING
1) GENERAL PLAN UPDATE (GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT NO. 14-02) AND
DOWNTOWN PLAN AND CODEJOINT MEETING, DIRECTION TO BEGIN
PREPARATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT
A. Staff Presentation
B. City Council/Planning Commission Comments
C. Public Comments
D. Planning Commission Recommendation to City Council
E. City Council Direction
F. Recommendation: It is recommended that the Planning Commission and City Council
take the following actions:
1.) Planning Commission provide recommendation to City Council on direction on the
draft General Plan Update and Downtown Plan and Code, specifically on the vision of
forecasted development for Downtown and other areas of the City, to allow for analysis in
the Environmental Impact Report (EIR); and
2.) City Council provide direction on the draft General Plan Update and Downtown Plan
and Code, specifically on the vision of forecasted development for Downtown and other
areas of the City, to allow for analysis in the Environmental Impact Report (EIR); and
3.) City Council adopt Resolution No. 2016-01 initiating a Code Amendment to consider
adopting a Downtown Plan to become the zoning for that district.
Motion by second by
adopt disapprove hold over
ADJOURNMENT
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Tuesday January 12, 2016
I RULES OF DECORUM I
Thefollowing are excerpts,froin the West Carina Municipal Code:
See. 2-48. Manner of addressing council; time limit; persons addressing may be sworn.
(a) Each person addressing the council shall step up to the rostrum, shall give his or her name and city of
residence in an audible tone of voice for the record and unless further time is granted by the council, shall
limit his or her address to five (5) minutes.
(b) The city council may establish a limit on the duration of oral communications.
(c) All remarks shall be addressed to the council as a body and not to any member thereof No person, other
than the council and the person having the floor, shall be permitted to enter into any discussion, either
directly or through a member of the council, without the permission of the presiding officer. No question
shall be asked of a councilinember except through the presiding officer.
(d) The presiding officer may require any person to be sworn as a witness before addressin.- the council on any
subject. Any such person who, having taken an oath that lie or she will testify truthfully, willfully and
contrary, to such oath states as true any material matter which he knows to be false may be held to answer
criminally and subject to the penalty prescribed for perjury by the provisions of the Penal Code of the state.
See. 2-50. Decorum --Required.
(a) While the council is in session, the mernbeis must preserve order and decorum, and a member shall neither,
by conversation or otherwise, delay or interrupt the proceedings or the peace of the council nor disturb any
member while speaking or refuse to obey the orders of the council or its presiding officer, except as
otherwise herein provided.
(b) Any person making personal, impertinent or slanderous remarks or who shall become boisterous while
addressing the council shall be forthwith, by the presiding officer, barred from further audience before the
council, unless permission to continue be granted by a majority vote of the council.
Sec. 2-52. Persons authorized to be witbin council area.
No person, except city officials, their representatives and members of the news media shall be permitted within
the rail in front of the council chamber without the express consent of the council.
Thefollowing are excerpisfrom the Penal Code
148(a) (1) Every Person who willfully resists, delays, or obstructs any public officer, peace officer, or an
emergency medical technician, as defined in Division 2.5 (commencing with Section 1797) of the Health
and Safety code, in the discharge or attempt to discharge an), duty of his or her office or employment,
when no other punishment is prescribed, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars
($1,000), or by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year, or by both that fine and
imprisonment.
403 Every person who, without authority of law, willfully disturbs or breaks up any assembly or meeting that
is not unlawful in its character, other than an assembly or meeting referred to in Section 303 of the Penal
Code or Section 18340 of the Elections Code, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
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